In Person and Remote at the Same Time? No Problem!

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

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[@annwoodruff6383]

Thank you, Sam. You have worked hard AGAIN to provide the BEST strategies. You have a way of cutting out the "fluff", getting right to the point and sharing the MOST important use of this tech for enhancing our teaching to benefit our students for engagement. I can't thank you enough for the best 10 minutes I have spent this month so far by watching your 5 Hybrid teaching tips.

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

Thank you so much, Ann! ☺

[@tombomb00s]

That stations-based learning diagram was a lifesaver!

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

Glad to hear that, Thomas!

[@elizabethmachado8735]

My district transitioned from Distance Learning to Hybrid Teaching in late March. It was very difficult to decide how to run my hybrid classroom. I chose to teach my students at home and my in-person students synchronously. I create Google slides with the agenda, all activities for the day, and the homework for each lesson. I share my screen on Zoom for those at home, and display my screen on the projector screen in the classroom for those in person so all students are on the same page. We start as a whole, then they do independent work, and then they work in pairs or groups on a collaborative activity. Those on Zoom collaborate in their breakout room, and those in person communicate with each other face to face while still creating a digital product using Google Docs, Slides, Drawing, etc. (depending on the activity). When we share as a whole class, I drag my extended screen with the students on Zoom to the projector, and face my IPEVO camera towards the students physically in the classroom, so that both groups can see and hear each other. It has been working out well the past two months. I can see both groups of students at all times, and we have been able to maintain the classroom community we created during the 7 months of Distance Learning.

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

This is awesome! Thanks so much for sharing how you've been able to make hybrid teaching work for you, Elizabeth!

[@luciannagravel116]

I really needed to hear this because our school board was the first board in Ontario Canada to start with hybrid learning and I can tell you it wasn't easy at the beginning (what is anyway?). I immediately encouraged my F2F (face-to-face) learners to join our virtual classroom. This approach was initially not encouraged by our administrators and school board. I went ahead and did my own thing which always is to accommodate the needs of my students first and foremost. Thank you so much! This made me feel even better about my decisions on how I execute curriculum and foster healthy relationships with my students on this new and interesting learning journey.

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

Thanks so much for sharing, Lucianna!

[@nicdisan]

Always prepared and updated. THANKS

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

Thanks, Nic!

[@arleengill7922]

Sam this is why I get excited when you publish a new video! You are on point in all these suggestions. I only wish I had this in late August when we were setting up our hybrid classes. This model of congruent teaching is the way I have to teach all year. Please keep sending the suggestions. I feel I will be teaching somewhat the same way next year as well.

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

Will do, thanks so much, Arleen!

[@salyar6671]

Hi Sam. This hybrid thing is not going anywhere, so the best we can do is to improve our teaching ways (by following your amazing suggestions, hopefully you do more videos about it). Thanks a lot. Have a great day. Greetings. 🙂

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

So true, Saly! Thank you so much!

[@kimberlyhee6815]

This is actually really helpful for treachery today... unlike many PD

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

Thanks, Kimberly!

[@ehime4u2]

Thank you from Japan.

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

You’re welcome!

[@deerose8872]

Thanks for sharing these awesome tips 👌🏽 I start my first day of hybrid learning tomorrow! Not sure what to expect but I hope it goes well 🙏🏾

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

Best of luck!

[@ileenerickson4086]

Very helpful tips! Thank you.

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

Awesome, so glad to hear that!

[@karenzajackowski478]

More EXCELLENT advice!!!

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

Thanks so much, Karen!

[@dr.jimdunnigan2784]

Thanks Sam. Always good advice from you.

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

Appreciate that, Jim!

[@dpgoguen]

This is excellent advice. Some of the things I don't want to hear, but nevertheless are valuable and well thought-out strategies. Thank you.

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

Thanks for your feedback, David! I'm glad you found my advice helpful!

[@Thedvdbchannel]

Hope new videos focus on hybrid, bcs that's gonna be our new reality. Thanks for the videos.

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

You’re welcome! And thanks for the suggestion: more hybrid videos to come!

[@Thedvdbchannel]

Although the suggestions are in fact a "most to do", my reality is that the college I work for, is using google for education, and there's no way to ask them to buy access to those apps. So, I think we should work with that we have. For instance, I use my digital book and present it for both, on line and presencial students. Also, I try to do basic games, on google presentations so they all can participate. The hardest part is to listen to the on-line students. But ideas are running away 😅

[@Thedvdbchannel]

@vijendra Shrivastava hi, I teach languages, so we use digital books either for English or Spanish.

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

You should be able to accomplish quite a bit with just Google Edu tools! It's not the exact tool so much as how we strategically use those tools!

[@andrerosabueno]

Hello, Sam! I am about three years late into this discussion 🙂, but what I would like to ask you is if you believe that, with the end of the pandemic (or at least the worst part of it), some of the tips you offered here are not still applicable. Is it useful to go completely back to regular teaching or is a part of the technology and class organization you showcased here still useful and applicable? I am particularly interested in the way technology allows for parents to connect with the classroom and know what is being taught and how to give support to their kids. The use of digital workspace was an improvement and should be kept, in my opinion. I also believe that the availability of online "courseware" and exercises is an improvement, because students can revise what was given at their own pace and the teacher can monitor the evolution of assignments. In short, there were some benefits of concurrent teaching that I hope are not abandonmed now that we are back to regular teaching. I hope you can comment on this. If you have already addressed the matter in another video, please forgive me - I am new to this channel. Also, English is not my native language, so please excluse any mistakes.

[@meaganterry4591]

I've been teaching Hybrid students since October and I'm sorry this video is not helpful. I tried to do many of these things at the beginning and found that my students in person didn't need their chromebooks out for in person. The logistics of charging throughout the day, too much stuff on their table, too much transition time and on different tabs. Once I limited in person technology, my lessons went much more smoothly. If this video isn't realistic for you. That's okay!! You are doing fine.

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

Hi Meagan, sure, there are many different ways of approaching hybrid teaching, though in general I do think that technology-integrated teaching is the inevitable way of the future, so at some point we're going to need to figure out the logistics of having students manage devices in school. But I also understand that trying to take on too many things at once is daunting, and usually doesn't lead to successful outcomes. One step at a time.

[@syamsularifinbinmohamadyun5535]

great sharing

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

Thank you very much!

[@chrismorrison7592]

Thanks Sam. Here in South Africa we have a very different situation in that many kids have a disparity in wealth and accessibility to technology in all forms. This year we managed to get all our students onto a student network to be able to use their phones in the class (We run Google Classroom as our go to platform and Engage for school admin). The hardware limitations/accessibility to data/accessibility to device has been a sore point for all South Africa schools from the start of the pandemic. My question is how can one bring about the school management teams to see that hybrid teaching is here to stay and what are some strategies that management teams can begin to look at to facilitate a more blended learning approach? Additionally there is large resistance from teachers (most are older but of great quality) to bring about a change in their pedagogies due to their lack of technological skill. The mountain seems daunting. Any advice or tips/starting points to pass on to help them change their mindsets?

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

Hi Chris, Apologies for the long delay in responding here. Changing mindsets, as you know, is hard work, and won't happen over night. I think the most important thing to do is always tie technology back to an instructional goal. Everyone isn't on board about instructional technology, but pretty much everyone IS on board for active learning, differentiation, student engagement, formative assessment, etc. (not meaning everyone does these things, but they are widely agreed upon as effective teaching practices). I find that when you can show how tech tools help teachers achieve those instructional goals, you have more success in terms of winning reluctant adopters over. Best of luck!

[@chrismorrison7592]

Thanks Sam. As we enter our third wave here in South Africa, it seems that there is more acceptance after I did personal interactions with different department. There is still computer competency issues which undermines the system as a whole which as an institution our School needs to address. Wishing you all the best. Keep up the great work.

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

@@chrismorrison7592 Yeah, that makes sense. If teachers and students don't have foundational technology skills then tech actually becomes a barrier to learning, which is one of the reasons there's sometimes resistance to using it. Best of luck and thanks for supporting the channel!

[@niraturquand5854]

Love the tips. I have a question. I use Peardeck on a daily basis. How do my students save what they do for the next school year? Does it automatically save the Peardeck work on their Google suite so they can access the work next year?

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

Hi Nira, if you have the paid version, you can create "student takeaways" that you can share back with students. But with the free version, they won't be able to access their work again in the future. Hope that helps, and sorry for the late reply!

[@vandanansehgal380]

You are the best

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

YOU are the best Vandana!

[@sarahmaddison4306]

Great tips, but it really sounds like online learning rather than hybrid....

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

That's true in the sense that I'm making the argument that if you have a hybrid concurrent classroom, one approach is to move the class online rather than trying to bring the physical classroom to your online students.

[@marijanmadunic3046]

Your presentation is great, you just don’t need to use the term hybrid “learning”. Learning is always real, and happens locally, in the person of the student. Learning is a psychological change and cannot happen outside of a person. Teaching is another thing, it can happen both face to face, and completely virtual or in a mixed model, that you are talking about. So: hybrid learning NO, hybrid teaching YES or from me STRONG YES. Croatia, EU

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

Thanks for your comment! Yeah, I agree with you and wasn’t intentionally using the word “learning” as opposed to teaching. I Appreciate your attention to precision in language though: you’re right!

[@marijanmadunic3046]

@@NewEdTechClassroom Thank you for the great clips. Please can you send me quality literature in PDF or links where I can download a specific book, which you recommend. my mail is: [e-mail], and I would love to have your contact to share teaching materials, if possible. Sincerely Marijan Madunić

[@RomanBaranovic]

this is interesting comment from you Marjan. i think the problem lies in our languages, i am from slovakia so my language is similar to your croatian. we use the same word both for learning and teaching. in my experience, this causes teachers at least in my country to forget, that their my goal should be to facilitate learning proces of the students instead they focus on teaching process. our colleagues in english speaking countries can make the distinction easier. so the question remains, is this about hybrid learning process from the students perspective or teaching process from the teachers perspective

[@marijanmadunic3046]

@@RomanBaranovic Dear colleague Roman, I think the matter is much simpler. Learning in Croatian is "learning" in English, and teaching (in terms of a professional, my work as a professor) is "teaching" in English. So both we and they have a clear difference between the job of teaching and the mental process in the person of the student - learning. A process that causes changes in behavior and is always local in nature, occurs only within a person. Learning can never take place outside a person, "at a distance", so it cannot even interfere with any "blended learning". So there is no confusion between teaching and learning. Unfortunately in literature and inaccurate speech this has become commonly used without anyone stopping and saying out loud: Hey, well that’s not true! The only thing that is possible is to do the work remotely, partly, and the other part directly in the classroom, and that is mixed TEACHING - of which I am a great advocate even before the kovid crisis. What you are saying about our colleagues, who forget the true essence of our profession, is quite true and I am afraid it is the case all over the world. My mail is: [e-mail], and I would be glad to be able to exchange opinions, literature, etc. For example, I need literature on hybrid teaching in English but in PDF, which I can get by email or have a link where I can download free and good books on this topic. I was immediately contacted by the author of this video, from America, and he agrees with everything I am talking about. With respect Marijan Madunić Zagreb Croatia

[@karenrains9211]

I see you mention Newsela, but CommonLit is much better AND it's free. As a journalism instructor, I've found Newsela to be extremely biased. As an English teacher, I only use CommonLit and have completely left Newsela.

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

Thanks for the recommendation!

[@lindabenn2659]

If everyone is in the meet won't there be a lot of reverb ( screeching)

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

Right!

[@annaannab5365]

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[@NewEdTechClassroom]

Yes?

[@rahimimahmud]

If only my school alllow the students to use their electronic devices

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

Yes, that would be helpful!

[@adamd5944]

This doesn't work for the youngest students.

[@NewEdTechClassroom]

Which part doesn't work?

[@adamd5944]

@@NewEdTechClassroom Well teaching 5 year old's through a computer screen and in person is not possible as they are 5 and can not sit still for more than 2 mins and need to be watched constantly and since this is there first time ever going to school and don't know what it is like to socialize and talk like a normal kindergartener it is especially challenging for them.

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